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Glore Psychiatric Museum

About Glore Psychiatric Museum

The Glore Psychiatric Museum is part of a complex of St. Joseph, Missouri, museums, along with the Black Archives Museum, the St. Joseph Museum, and the American Indian and History Galleries. The Glore exhibits feature the 130-year history of the adjacent state mental hospital, and illustrate the history of mental health treatment through the ages. It has been called one of the fifty most unusual museums in the United States.

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Founded
1967

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  1. Glore Psychiatric Museum, Saint Joseph01Saint JosephDavid Becker · CC BY 2.0
  2. Cloth embroidered by a schizophrenia sufferer02Cloth embroidered by a schizophrenia sufferercometstarmoon · CC BY 2.0
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  5. Glore Psychiatric Museum -Bath of Surprise05Bath of SurpriseDavid Becker · CC BY 2.0

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Nearby museums

Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.8 miles of Glore Psychiatric Museum; the closest, St Joseph Museum, is about a mile away.